The grateful elephant, Opening, part 6, sentence 62
“Yes, your majesty,” said those men to Brahmadatta king of Kāsi; and in obedience to his command brought Prince Dīghāvu to him.
Who acts: men, king · What happens: say, bring, command · To what, where: Dīghāvu, king, obedience · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men, king), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 8 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 majesty | punct |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 majesty | nmod:poss |
| 5 | majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Yes | vocative |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 10 men | det |
| 10 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 said | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 king | case |
| 12 | Brahmadatta | Brahmadatta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 king | compound |
| 13 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 men | nmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Kāsi | case |
| 15 | Kāsi | Kāsi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 king | nmod |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 brought | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 brought | cc |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 obedience | case |
| 19 | obedience | obedience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 brought | obl |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 command | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 command | nmod:poss |
| 22 | command | command | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 obedience | nmod |
| 23 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | conj |
| 24 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Dīghāvu | nmod:desc |
| 25 | Dīghāvu | Dīghāvu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 brought | obj |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 him | case |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 brought | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | that men | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | bring | past | that men not said here | Dīghāvu Prince | king | obedience to king's command | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent dīghāvu=Theme to he=Destination | ||
| 3 | command | king | nom command «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Project Gutenberg book 74064 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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